New England Friends have a special opportunity to meet Joyce Aljouny, Director of the Ramallah Friends School (RFS). Founded in 1869 by Vassalboro (ME) Friends Sybil and Eli Jones, the School is currently operated by Friends United Meeting.
Schedule
Joyce is now traveling in New England with the following schedule:
10/25 Wilderness (VT) Meeting
10/26 Hanover (NH) Meeting
10/27 The Meeting School and Monadnock (NH) Meeting
10/28 Moses Brown School
10/29 Lincoln School and Westport (MA) Meeting
10/30 Mattapoisett (MA) Meeting
10/31 Providence (RI) Meeting
11/1 Cambridge Friends School
11/2 Visiting in Maine
11/3 Friends School Portland
11/4 Colby College
11/5 Vassalboro, Me
11/6 Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting, Farmington, ME
11/7 Durham (ME) Meeting
Joyce Ajlouny
Joyce Ajlouny is a member of the Ramallah Monthly Meeting and is one of the very few Palestinian Quakers left in the country. Joyce is a graduate of RFS and also a mother of three boys, two of which attend the school and a third who is an alumnus. Her job involves oversight of both the lower and upper school campuses. This includes ensuring the rigorous academic program develops to meet the modern day challenges, fundraising, infrastructure development, community building and financial administration.
Joyce will speak about the important impact that the RFS has had on the community throughout its 140 year history as a leading school in the Middle East. She will also describe her personal challenges, as well as those of the RFS community of students and teachers, that result from living and working under a military occupation. Donations to the School and to Joyce’s work and ministry are welcomed. For more information contact Jonathan Vogel-Borne, ymsec@neym.org.
updated October 29, 2010